Campaign Update

Obenshain Files Candidacy Paperwork, Picks Up New Endorsements

This morning, I officially filed the necessary papers to seek the Republican nomination for Attorney General.

It was a routine event rendered more meaningful by the location: the Richard D. Obenshain Center, the state party headquarters that bears my father's name.

You already knew, of course, that I was running for Attorney General, but today's filing serves as a reminder that we're coming up on a new phase in the campaign, one dominated by the March and April mass meetings at which each unit will elect delegates to the state convention on May 18th.

The 2013 session of the Virginia General Assembly begins tomorrow, and it is to his legislative duties that I will devote the greater portion of my time during the 45-day "short session." But the campaign goes forward – with your help.

The constraints imposed by session make it all the more important that you get involved, helping to spread the word about my campaign and encouraging your friends and neighbors to join my team.

You'll be in good company. Today, I'm pleased to announce an expanded list of endorsements from State Central Committee, where more than half of our party's state committee is already on Team Obenshain:

Steve Albertson

Diana Banister

Mark Berg

Morton Blackwell

Pam Brown

Gary Byler

Curtis Colgate

Patsy Drain

Susan Edwards

Bob FitzSimmonds

Kevin Gentry

Mike Ginsberg

Kay Gunter

Emmett Hanger

Marcy Hernick

Donald Huffman

Mark Kelly

Peyton Knight

Amanda Kranz

Jeanine Lawson

Jerry Lester

Zach Martin

Renee Maxey

Rick Michael

Roger Miles

Jack Morgan

Chip Muir

Rich Nilsen

Marie Quinn

Davis Rennolds

Scott Sayre

John Scott

Chris Shores

Bill Stanley

Chris Stearns

Mary Gail Swenson

Michael Thomas

Adam Tolbert

Wendell Walker

Terry Wear

John Whitbeck

Jack Wilson

With nine congressional district chairs, the majority of state central committee members, and conservative leaders like Kay Coles James, Ron Robinson, Michelle Easton, Morton Blackwell, Steve Newman, Dick Black, Mike Farris, Mike Thompson, Chris Stearns, Donna Holt, and Melvin Adams (just to name a few) already on board, there's no time like the present to join Team Obenshain!

SJ 256, my resolution which could result in a constitutional amendment that expands charter schools here in the Commonwealth, just passed the House of Delegates by a vote of 58-42. Big thanks to Delegate Rob Bell who also worked very hard on this issue.Posted Tue, Feb 24.